Jean Annette Paton MBE (née Comins[1] or Comyn;[2] born 4 January 1929) is a British botanist, bryologist and botanical illustrator.
[6] She attended Bedford College in London from 1947, and later completed an MSc, doing a dissertation on the bryophytes of the sandstone rocks of Kent and Sussex.
[1] Paton won the Linnean Society's Jill Smythies Award in May 2000 for her illustrations in the book, and the International Association of Bryologists Sinske Hattori Prize for the best publication of 1999/2000.
[12] Throughout her career, Paton described a number of species new to science, including Anthoceros agrestis,[13] Ditrichum cornubicum,[14]: 98 Lophocolea brookwoodiana,[15] Telaranea murphyae and Fissidens celticus.
[5] In addition to this, she added many species to the list of bryophytes known in Britain, including Southbya tophacea, Lophocolea semeteres, and Marsupella profunda.